I am a college student, and I use outlook 2010 for my primary email, however, my school uses a gmail account for our college email. This account isn't even truly gmail, it's a google application for email and so I am having trouble adding my college email to outlook. Does anyone know what the incoming mail server would be for this? I'm truly stumped...

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Unfortunately, there as some issues with Outlook 2010 and the Google Apps Sync tool. Hopefully they get that resolved soon (I'm also a Google Apps for EDU and Outlook 2010 user), but in the meantime you'll have to use the imap solution. Instructions for imap with Gmail can be found here:

The thing that I think makes this not work is the fact that my email is not ...@gmail.com it's ...@<school_name>.edu I believe that this causes issues with domains and servers...
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GlennSep 27 '10 at 16:35

@Glen - This works fine with @school.edu addresses. I use it myself.
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Joel CoehoornSep 27 '10 at 20:04

I've never seen a university that doesn't have its own mailservers.
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paradroidOct 1 '10 at 22:25

@jason - Then let me introduce to your first. I'm Director of IT at a school that outsources e-mail to Google. Our only smtp server is a little thing we use to handle mail generated by a few temperature sensors around campus. Between Google Apps for My Domain EDU edition and Microsoft Live Mail EDU edition (both of which are free) there are quite a few colleges and universities that now choose this option, with more all the time.
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Joel CoehoornOct 2 '10 at 0:55

Google Apps Sync versions 2.0.499.2346 (for 32-bit Outlook) and 2.0.500.23 (for 64-bit Outlook) are now available for all new downloads. Existing installs will be updated gradually over the next few weeks.
What’s New:
Support for Microsoft Outlook® 2010
Rich contact data available in the Global Address List
Enhanced support for custom From addresses

We have had nothing but problems with our Google Apps e-mail migrations to Outlook 2010. Here is a short list of the most serious problems: (1) Can't have an exchange server e-mail connection alongside Google Apps e-mail and have Google Apps still send e-mail in Outlook 2010. (2) Some users with just a Google Apps e-mail address in their profile appear to send e-mail which "vanishes" mysteriously - no Sent Items, no Drafts, no Outbox - just "poof"! (3) strange "from" in e-mails to groups. (4) Problems with sharing of calendar information. (5) events/meetings that appear in calendars without any "invite". (6) Problems with sync failing or hanging up Outlook.

We have contractors working for us that use Outlook 2010 to connect with their client e-mail accounts and keep calendars organized - we have lost this ability. Some users have gone two days without e-mails being delivered before they noticed and no errors AT ALL were reported.

All I can say is that Outlook 2010 integration is still seriously BETA and has numerous critical issues that are not yet resolved. I would not recommend a migration at this time if anyone is considering it.